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Surgical procedures exist and may preclude ideal implant Imported from the CBCT into the implant planning software The patient returned 8 weeks after implants were placed. Part I: Identifying the implant patient and. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents guidelines for immediate loading of implant overdentures. Immediate loading of implants reportedly involves placement of the implant followed by prosthetic connection and occlusal and lateral forces. Also discussed are the differences between immediate overdentures and fixed restorations, factors to consider for immediate loading, and surgical procedures.

The article offers information on implant over dentures including over dentures abutment and attachment systems. Topics discussed include full mouth rehabilitation of the edentulous patient using dental implants performed by clinicians using three methods restoration: metal-ceramic restorations, fixed complete dentures, and implant over dentures, need of placement of dental implants parallel to enhance clinical outcomes of over denture restorations.

The article presents two case studies including one of an edentulous patient presented who wanted to retain his loose lower complete denture by implants and second of patient with an edentulous maxillary arch, who desired implants to provide enhanced stability for maxillary complete denture. Topics discussed include complications of the cases, use of cone beam computed tomography in the case and their treatment through implant overdenture.

The article focuses on the clinical applications of the intraoral optical scanning and in-office 3-dimensional printing technologies. Topics discussed include replacement of traditional methods with digital technology with in-house technology like CEREC (Sirona Dental Inc.), low implementation rate of such technologies due to high initial cost and discomfort with ceramic restorations, evolvement of intraoral optical scanning into method of replication of the dentition and oral tissues.